In the lab: researchers work to optimize the fermentation-based production of acetone and IPA (Courtesy: M Köpke/LanzaTech) A carbon-negative process that produces industrial-scale quantities of ...

Flowsheet of isopropanol and acetone recovery process using vacuum distillation (VD) process configuration (W - water, IPA - isopropanol, AC - acetone, AA - acetic acid). In a major stride towards ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a chemist discovered that Clostridium bacteria efficiently ferment sugar or starch into alcohols and acetone. Cheap fossil fuels made the process commercially unviable, but it is ...

Research published in AMB Express reports on a manufacturing development from investigators in Japan. The team has designed a more sustainable technique employing bacteria to produce acetone, a ...

Fermentation, which makes wine and beer alcoholic, has now joined humanity’s proverbial toolbelt in lowering the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Researchers at synthetic biology company ...

Acetone, a volatile solvent used for everything from removing nail polish and cleaning textiles to manufacturing plastics, could get a sustainability boost from a new strain of engineered bacteria.

AZoM speaks to Michael Jewett, a researcher at Northwestern University, about a novel process using bacteria to capture CO2 and convert it into the useful commercial chemicals acetone and isopropanol.

Acetone and isopropanol are important chemicals for industry. They are used to produce materials from jet fuel to solvents to detergents to plastics. Currently, industry produces these two chemicals ...

Bacteria are known for breaking down lactose to make yogurt and sugar to make beer. Now researchers led by Northwestern Engineering and LanzaTech have harnessed bacteria to break down waste carbon ...

Green acetone refers to acetone produced through sustainable and environmentally friendly methods, contrasting with conventional petrochemical routes that rely on fossil fuels. It is typically derived ...